wage

Etymology 1
From, from , from , a northern variant of , (whence modern French ), , from  (cognate with 🇨🇬), from , from. Akin to 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬. Compare also the doublet. More at.

Noun

 * 1)  An amount of money paid to a worker for a specified quantity of work, usually calculated on an hourly basis and expressed in an amount of money per hour.

Translations

 * Afrikaans: loon
 * Albanian:
 * Arabic:, رَاتِب
 * Armenian: ,
 * Azerbaijani:, aylıq, donluq, əmək haqqı
 * Belarusian: зарабо́тная пла́та, зарпла́та
 * Bengali:
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, , , , estipendi, remuneració,
 * Cebuano: suhol
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese:, 薪水
 * Dungan: гунчян
 * Mandarin:, , ,
 * Czech:
 * Danish:, timeløn
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: salajro
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * Galician: ,
 * Georgian:
 * German:, Arbeitsentgelt
 * Greek: ,
 * Ancient: μισθός, ὀψώνιον
 * Gujarati: મજૂરી, વેતન
 * Hebrew: ,
 * Hindi:, तनख़्वाह, मासिक वेतन,
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Icelandic:
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: ,
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:, サラリー,
 * Kazakh: айлық, жалақы, еңбекақы
 * Khmer: ប្រាក់ខែ, បរិលាភ,
 * Korean:, , , , 품삯
 * Kurdish:
 * Northern Kurdish:, , ,
 * Kyrgyz: кызмат акы, эмгек акы,
 * Lao: ຄ່າຈ້າງ,
 * Latgalian: moksa, lūne
 * Latin: mercēs, manupretium
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: užmokestis,
 * Luxembourgish: Loun
 * Macedonian: пла́та
 * Malay:
 * Malayalam: വേതന,
 * Maltese: paga
 * Manchu: ᠪᠠᠰᠠ
 * Maori: utu-ā-haora
 * Middle English: wage, mede, hire
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic: цалин хөлс,
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål:
 * Occitan:
 * Old Prussian: algā
 * Persian:, ,
 * Plautdietsch: Jehault
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese:, ,
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: cosnadh, pàigh, tuarasdal
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: пла́та, пла́ћа
 * Roman: ,
 * Slovak: mzda, plat
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Sudovian: alga
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tagalog: sahod, suweldo
 * Tajik:, моҳона, музди кор, дастмузд
 * Tatar: хезмәт хакы,
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, , , ,
 * Turkmen: iş haky,
 * Ukrainian: заробі́тна пла́та, зарпла́та, запла́та
 * Urdu: ویتَن, اَجْرَت, تَنْخواہ
 * Uyghur: مائاش, ئايلىق, ئىش ھەققى
 * Uzbek:, , , ish haqi
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: לוין

Etymology 2
From, from , , a northern variant of (whence modern 🇨🇬), itself either from  or from a derivative of , possibly through a  intermediate  from.

Verb

 * 1)  To wager, bet.
 * 2)  To expose oneself to, as a risk; to incur, as a danger; to venture; to hazard.
 * 3)  To employ for wages; to hire.
 * 4)  To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
 * 5)  To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
 * 6)  To give security for the performance of
 * 1)  To conduct or carry out (a war or other contest).
 * 2)  To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
 * 3)  To give security for the performance of
 * 1)  To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
 * 2)  To give security for the performance of
 * 1)  To adventure, or lay out, for hire or reward; to hire out.
 * 2)  To give security for the performance of
 * 1)  To give security for the performance of
 * 1)  To give security for the performance of

Usage notes

 * "Wage" collocates strongly with "war", leading to expressions such as To wage peace, or To wage football implying the inclusion of a large element of conflict in the action.

Derived terms

 * (agent noun)

Translations

 * Arabic: شَنَّ
 * Azerbaijani:, , ,
 * Bulgarian: заемам се, наемам се
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Danish: føre, udføre
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Icelandic: heyja stríð, heyja
 * Italian:
 * Japanese:
 * Maori:
 * Occitan:
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:

Etymology
From, from.

Noun

 * 1) weight
 * 2) a certain weight, of which the exact value varied
 * 3) weighing scale
 * 4) weighhouse

Etymology 1
From, from , from. .

Noun

 * 1) A ; earnings.
 * 2) Money reserved for the payment of salaries.
 * 3) An earned positive consequence.
 * 4) A promise, pact, or agreement.

Etymology 1
From.

Noun

 * 1) wave (moving part of a liquid, etc.)

Etymology 2
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